Windows Freezing on Dell Laptop During Single Application Use
My Dell laptop frequently hangs or freezes for 1-2 minutes, becoming unresponsive with a frozen screen. This occurs randomly and disrupts important tasks. What troubleshooting steps or solutions can help resolve this issue?
Windows for home | Windows 11 | Performance and system failures

Word jumping away from selected chart
Whenever I click on a chart within a Word Document and start to format it's settings (for example: adjusting the size), Word jumps off of the item taking me back to the "Home" tab and off of the "Format" tab after about one second.…
Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For business | Windows

What are the undisclosed LCU pushed features in Microsoft Windows 11 24H2 for x64 systems KB5062553
I was pushed the SSU and LCU for Microsoft Windows 11 24H2 for x64 systems KB5062553 and of course want the SSU package but have learned to be suspicious of returning to using my machine after LCU packages are processed. I am spending 10-15 hours…
Windows for business | Windows 365 Business
My computer rebooted itself during gameplay
i was playing delta force and all the sudden my pc blue screen and reboote so i went to check event viewer and i got Event id 1001 The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x00000124 (0x0000000000000000, 0xffffd8074b9b2028,…
Windows for home | Windows 11 | Performance and system failures
ASR Blocking Signed DLL in MSI Installation
We have an installer for our project, built as an MSI using WiX. It internally has a custom actions DLL that is signed with the same certificate the MSI is signed with. This DLL is injected into the Binary Table of the MSI by WiX. When we try to…
Microsoft Security | Microsoft Defender | Other
Urgent: Microsoft Authenticator Security Breach - Investigation Required
Background: Since mid-2023, I've experienced anomalies with my Microsoft Authenticator app, including unauthorized access attempts to various accounts. Following these incidents, I discovered and removed unknown mobile numbers within my Authenticator…
Microsoft Security | Microsoft Authenticator
Our virtual server is in a reboot loop
Our server is not starting properly. And services are not available to our clients.
Azure Virtual Machines
A fake Outlook account
A fake account (******@outlook.com) is impersonating my Outlook account or sending suspicious emails. My account is compromised, and I reinstalled Windows to address this. I cannot make changes to my account or apply Windows updates. Please escalate for…
Outlook | Windows | Classic Outlook for Windows | For business
pyodbc programming error: Encountered exception when enlisting connection
Hi, I have an app hosted on azure app service that is using a managed identity configured with azure sql db. The app was working fine but today I saw the following error message in the application logs and couldn't figure out what might be causing this:…
Azure SQL Database
I need to create a windows 11 VM with #D rendering GPU capbability. How do I find one?
I should be able to use the "NGads V620-series", but I cannot find it in Azure. Can someone please help me?
Azure Virtual Machines
Get Geocoding can not deal with typos in query string
I'm using the Azure Maps Get Geocoding endpoint with version 2025-01-01. According to the documentation, "the geocoder is very tolerant of typos and incomplete addresses". However, this does not seem to be the case at all. For example the query…
Azure Maps
We are unable to connect the Azure Application Gateway to the Azure Container App service.
Traffic Flow The traffic flow is configured as follows: The Application Gateway sends traffic to the Azure Firewall. The Azure Firewall filters the traffic and sends packets to the Azure Container App service. Infrastructure Overview • Application…
Azure Container Apps

Cannot Access AI Foundry – Tenant Access Error (Guest User Not Found)
Hello, I’m trying to access the Microsoft AI Foundry application using my Outlook account, but I’m getting the following error message: "Selected user account does not exist in tenant 'Microsoft' and cannot access the application…
Azure AI services
Excel hyperlinks no longer have working hyperlinks when pdf'd
I've been using https web hyperlinks on images and cells in holiday itineraries in Excel for years. I PDF the sheets to share. This has just stopped working, including on sheets successfully pdf'd recently. Both image and cell links are no longer…
Microsoft 365 and Office | Excel | For business | Windows

USB drive not suitable for saving a system image backup - how do I sort it
I tried doing a System Image Backup in Windows 11 last week and hit a snag. I was using a 64GB USB stick and it seems it's not a suitable location for a backup. My previous image back up was on a Windows 10 PC with a DVD drive so I was able to use a DVD…
Microsoft Security | Microsoft Defender | Other
I am getting an error about parental consent, but I am already an adult, and I am the organizer of the account.
My Hotmail account won’t let me get logged in and has me going through a continuous loop of verifying email (through Gmail backup), getting code, logging back in with password to then be asked about parent/guardian consent which then kicks me back to…
Outlook | Windows | Classic Outlook for Windows | For business
Having to reload colour calibration each time on start-up, Help?
Hi, I am having an issue with my colour calibration settings in windows 11, every time I shut off my laptop and turn it back on again, my colour calibration has turned off, thankfully I can just press the reload calibration button and its not completely…
Microsoft System Center | Other
What to do when Error Code 700 is showing and emails are not being sent?
Suddenly my emails are not being sent and this message comes up: MessageDeliveryFailedException: Could not deliver the message [len= *** PII Removed *** Failure code: 700 These emails were to people I send many emails to, and they did not all have…
Outlook | Windows | Classic Outlook for Windows | For business
Assigning large text block to nvarchar(max) SOMETIMEs truncates at 4000 bytes
I have a really large dynamic sql query (19,000+ in length) that is assigned to @SQLText nvarchar(max). Everything was working. Made some minor changes and then @SQLText variable only contained 4000 characters, truncating the rest of the query text.…
SQL Server | SQL Server Transact-SQL
How do i make my notifications go to my new device
I had a new phone and signed into my authenticator and the notifications were still going to my old phone so i deleted the app and then re downloaded as i saw that you are meant to turn verification off . Now im getting no notifications at all and when…